Reviewer: 35-44 Male on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)

Effectiveness

Current Rating: 2

Ease of Use

Current Rating: 4

Satisfaction

Current Rating: 1

Comment: If you like the idea of being in a constant state of a sleep induced coma then Seroquel is for you! This drug will knock you on your a$$. I slept for 16 hours a day on this and when I was awake all I could do was sleep! I only use this if I know I will have the time to sleep for at least 2 days. Very potent stuff. Don't use for anything other than sleep.

Comment:If you like the idea of being in a constant state of a sleep induced coma then Seroquel is for you! This drug will knock you on your a$$. I slept for 16 hours a day on this and when I was awake all I could do was sleep! I only use this if I know I will have the time to sleep for at least 2 days. Very potent stuff. Don't use for anything other than sleep.Hide Full Comment

Comment: yes it was very effective if I wanted to be unconcience during an inmtamate act. I fought so hard to keep my eyes open, 5 mins after taking one 600mg pill. I was dead to the world. ease to swallow. I was not satisfied with the pill and if I wanted to sleep my life away. if other people cant deal with me or handle me that's on them. I'm here to live and breathe life and not to be a zombie.
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Comment:yes it was very effective if I wanted to be unconcience during an inmtamate act. I fought so hard to keep my eyes open, 5 mins after taking one 600mg pill. I was dead to the world. ease to swallow. I was not satisfied with the pill and if I wanted to sleep my life away. if other people cant deal with me or handle me that's on them. I'm here to live and breathe life and not to be a zombie....
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Reviewer: ThinkingMonkey, 45-54 Male on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)

Effectiveness

Current Rating: 4

Ease of Use

Current Rating: 5

Satisfaction

Current Rating: 5

Comment: I was prescribed 300mg of Seroquel several years ago by my psychiatrist for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I was also taking about 8 others. Didn't help much and as many of you may have experienced with it, I had a massive weight gain and slept like 20 hours a day. I normally weigh around 200 but was at 260 after about 2 1/2 months(!). I told her I wasn't taking it anymore, it wasn
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Comment:I was prescribed 300mg of Seroquel several years ago by my psychiatrist for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I was also taking about 8 others. Didn't help much and as many of you may have experienced with it, I had a massive weight gain and slept like 20 hours a day. I normally weigh around 200 but was at 260 after about 2 1/2 months(!). I told her I wasn't taking it anymore, it wasn't helping and it had those very severe eating and sleeping side effects. Well, fast forward about 6 years and 2 psychiatrist later and now the new doctor decides Seroquel is a really good idea, 900mg at that, triple what had messed me up so bad earlier. I told her I wasn't taking it but she insisted I at least try it. Lo and behold I felt like a new man and I had no sleeping or eating side effects whatsoever! I couldn't believe it. So I've been taking that dosage for about 3 years now and it works pretty well. The combination of medicine I now take, quite a bit of it, does seem to hinge on my 3mg daily of Ativan though. If I miss a couple of doses it seems to throw EVERYTHING out of whack. None of the other medications seem to work right anymore. So I guess this review is pretty worthless because what I'm saying from personal experience is that Seroquel is horrible and you gain 30 pounds a month and sleep all day and night, but later experience with it proved to work pretty darn good. I would say 'great' but I don't think any medication works 'great', except for Nexium, that is. :)Hide Full Comment

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